The Autonomous University of Madrid, founded in 1968, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The campus of the university spans a rural tract of 650 acres, mostly around metropolitan Madrid. UAM's Cantoblanco Campus holds most of the university's facilities. UAM offers 94 doctorate programs in all of the universities studies. It also offers 88 master's degrees. The results of the eighth edition of the CYD Foundation ranking confirm that the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) maintains its position as the first university in Madrid and as the second university in Spain in terms of performance, an assessment obtained from the analysis of 27 areas of knowledge. Specifically, the UAM stands out for being the first nationwide in Teaching and Learning, an area with the highest number of indicators that evaluate the graduation rate and normative graduation (Bachelor and Master), performance and success, among others.
